"The electric car will account for 10% of the global market in 10 years, " he told BBC News.

BBC: Nissan Leaf electric car to be built in Sunderland

"We all admire the beaver for the way it can turn a linear river into a lake with a dam, but the termites turning the desert into a pattern of oases that allow permanent life even in drought periods for hundreds of years - that's much more fascinating, " he told BBC News.

BBC: Termites 'engineer fairy circles'

"This makes a nonsense of competition, ten years of liberalistion is being wiped out in one go, " Mr. Nicholson told BBC News Online.

BBC: Gas prices worry UK industry

Two years ago, Mr Fisker told BBC News he was initially gunning for annual sales of 15, 000, though over time, this should rise to hundreds of thousands of cars.

BBC: Henrik Fisker resigns from carmaker

She was one of the first women to read the news on BBC radio - four years before Sheila Tracy famously became the first woman newsreader on Radio 4.

BBC: Patricia Hughes

"Local authorities across the country have been totally supportive of driving food standards up in schools over the last few years, " she told BBC News.

BBC: Iceland boss blames councils over 'poor meat quality'

"By now, after three years of this government, we should have an e-borders programme, " Mr Vaz told the BBC News website.

BBC: Crowd of shoppers